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Christos Yapijakis, Assistant Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Athens School of medicine, has kindly allowed us to share his slide presentation given recently to the 11th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) Athens, Greece, March 23-26 2017. Below is an abstract and …

Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Does the issue of “limits” in regard to desire require that we necessarily choose the lowest possible quantity or quality of that desire? I contend that the answer …

Do you see why the subject of “limits” was so important to Epicurus that the word is found no less than thirteen times over nine of the forty Principle Doctrines? Do you realize why, if an Epicurean admitted that pleasure has no natural limit, the …

Do you see why an Epicurean, in speaking about virtue, will never admit that a thing can be virtuous unless that thing is either pleasurable or leads to pleasure? Do you realize why admitting that a thing can be virtuous without being pleasurable, or without …

Over at the Facebook Group we recently discussed the location of Epicurus in the famous “School of Athens” artwork, and as part of that discussion it came to light that Takis Panagiotopoulos has produced a lengthy summary of the history of our modern knowledge …